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If you think an Italian car show is a strange place to show off an all-American supercar, you might be right. Still, SV brought its Corvette-based 9C Competizione to Concorso Italiano today – in fact, it brought two of them – and now we have more photos and details on this custom coachbuilt machine.

As we’ve reported before, the SV 9C Competizione starts life as a new C6 Corvette coupe. SV’s Michigan assembly plant then substitutes its own lightweight, stylized carbon fiber bodywork for the original fiberglass panels Then, the inside of the car is trimmed in carbon fiber and leather, with new seats and gauge faces. An Italian ANSA exhaust system and free-flow intake boost the stock Corvette’s LS3 V-8 to 450 ponies, and unique SV designed wheels, along with a reworked suspension and brake package round out the major mechanical changes. SV says that the car is also around 300 lbs lighter than a stock Vette, weighing in at 3085 lbs according to factory literature.

Those changes do make a difference in performance, claims SV. With a factory-estimated top speed of 190 mph, a 4.0-sec. 0 to 60 mph sprint in just 4.0 sec. flat, a quarter-mile time of 12.0 sec. at 123 mph, and lateral acceleration estimated at 1.03g, we’d love to get one on the track to see how it really stacks up against the standard Vette.

A representative for SV told us that all their cars sold as turn-key vehicles for a base price of $99,995. What that means to you, is that you won’t be able to give them your own Corvette for modification, you’ll have to buy a new car directly from SV due to their desire to keep total production figures at 1000 units. Since the core structure remains the same as the standard Corvette, GM will honor their factory warranty for the SV 9C Competizione. What’s next for SV? Possibly a limited run of 1000 9C Convertibles. We also asked about the possibility of using Chevy‘s hard-core Corvette Z06 as the basis for a 9C Competizione. After a brief pause, we were told that it could be done as all the body mounting points remain the same. An exciting proposition, though we’d expect the price to increase dramatically.